Sometimes, late at night, when the city finally remembers that it is allowed to be quiet, I catch myself staring at the ceiling and thinking about the strange future we are building with our own hands. Not just faster phones, not just more clever recommendation engines that push us more cat videos and more outrage, but something else. Something like the Minds from Iain Banks’ Culture novels: artificial intelligences so … Read the rest
Content 12+ It’s an unusual life, being an expat. It’s not merely about learning a new language or adjusting to unfamiliar food. It’s about existing in two worlds—one you left behind, and one that still feels like it doesn’t fully accept you. It’s about navigating a life where your identity is both anchored and adrift, where your sense of belonging is stretched between a past you can’t return to and … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ I have a new Russian student, a freelance workaholic living now in a foreign country, who is still on the right side of 40 and full of ideas seasoned with a tasty pinch of wisdom. We discuss many things during our lessons (it’s not a grammar arrangement), and I spend most of the time listening and absorbing what he has to say.
The other … Read the rest
Today we welcome a new author of our blog, @samuelrc (Samuel Rolon Cicciari) – meet Samuel!
By Samuel Rolon Cicciari
Content 16+ Nowadays the ‘achievement mentality’ in which we live saturates and exhausts people in such an enervating way that it can generate chronic mental illnesses that leave us feeling alienated and isolated. It alienates us from our true essence by stripping us of our intrinsic worth so we no longer matter for the … Read the rest
